hide
Named Entity Searches
hide
Matching Documents
The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.
Document | Max. Freq | Min. Freq | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life | 28 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1862., [Electronic resource] | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1862., [Electronic resource] | 5 | 1 | Browse | Search |
View all matching documents... |
Your search returned 49 results in 9 document sections:
John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life, chapter 4 (search)
John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life, chapter 5 (search)
John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life, chapter 7 (search)
VI.
Jonahs and Beats. Good people, I'll sing you a ditty, So bear with me all ye who can; I make an appeal to your pity, For I'm a most unlucky man. 'Twas under an unlucky planet That I a poor mortal was born; My existence since first I began it Has been very sad and forlorn.
Then do not make sport of my troubles, But pity me all ye who can, For I'm an uncomfortable, horrible, terrible, inconsolable, unlucky man. old song.
In a former chapter I made the statement that Sibley tents furnished quarters capacious enough for twelve men. That statement is to be taken with some qualifications.
If those men were all lying down asleep, there did not seem much of a crowd.
But if one man of the twelve happened to be on guard at night, and, furthermore, was on what we used to know as the Third Relief guard, which in my company was posted at 12, midnight, and came off post at 2 A. M., when all were soundly sleeping, and, moreover, if this man chanced to quarter in that part of the tent op
John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life, chapter 10 (search)
John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life, chapter 17 (search)
John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life, Index. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], A Lesson of hope. (search)
Sibley's campaign in New Mexico.
The campaign of Col. Sibley in New Mexico, an Interesting summary of which was lately furnished this paCol. Sibley in New Mexico, an Interesting summary of which was lately furnished this paper by a correspondent, is one of the most remarkable in history.
Nothing has occurred in this war which surpasses it in heroic enterprise and brilliant success.
The remoteness of Col. Sibley's theatre of operations is all that has prevented the wonderful achievements of his comm y man. We cannot forbear from once more giving the brief summary of Sibley's remarkable campaign.
In November last he left San Antonio, with tured United States band.
Our correspondent adds that when Colonel Sibley entered the Territory of New Mexico, although in the 25th paral sh these particulars as an act of justice to the glorious Texans of Sibley's command, and to their noble commander, of whom it is praise enough to say that he is worthy to be the commander of such men. Col Henry Sibley is a native of Louisiana, graduated at West Point in 1836, distin